The five match one day series between Pakistan and Australia is starting today in Pakistan’s adopted home Sharjah. This series will be played within a span of 10days which will be a hectic one for the players especially for the Pakistanis who are coming after PSL, so PCB has decided to rest their key players including their captain SAFARAZ AHMED. Pakistan have named a young squad and have given chances to those who have performed well in PSL like HASNAIN, ABID ALI and also some discarded players like JUNAID KHAN, YASIR SHAH and UMAR AKMAL. Pakistan would want to test their bench strength in this series and against a team like Australia its a great chance for youngsters to prove themselves to book a spot in world cup squad
SHOAIB MALIK will be captaining the side for Pakistan in the absence of Sarfaraz and most probably SHAN MASOOD who had an impressive test series in south africa will be making his debut in this match.
As far as Australians are concerned they will be looking themselves like world beaters as they just won the one day series against India after being 2 down, and they will look to carry that form and momentum into this series as well. They tried Nathan Lyon against India and since the conditions in sharjah would be similar to Indian conditions they once again would be tempted to go with two specialist spinners along with Maxwell.
PLAYERS TO WATCH OUT FOR PAKISTAN :UMAR AKMAL,JUNAID KHAN
PLAYERS TO WATCH OUT FOR AUSTRALIA:USMAN KHAWAJA,PAT CUMMINS
Overall this series will get its life in 4th and 5th odi’ where Smith and Warner are slated to return
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